Treaty of Paris (1815)

The Treaty of Paris, signed on 20 November 1815, was the treaty that ended the Napoleonic Wars. Following Napoleon I's defeat at the Battle of Waterloo on 18 June 1815, Napoleon was forced to surrender and go into exile on the remote Atlantic islant of Saint Helena, and France was dealt harsher punishments than it was under the first Treaty of Paris in 1814. Charles de Talleyrand, France's Foreign Minister, managed to soften the blows against France, but France still suffered; its borders were reduced to the 1790 borders, France was forced to pay an indemnity of ₣700,000,000 to the allies, and the French were forced to accept allied military occupation of seventeen French forts for five years.